Friday forum: what advice would you give Barry Bonds?

As detailed in this New York Times article, the next official development in the Barry Bonds prosecution takes place this morning.  Here are the basics:

Bonds, major league baseball’s career home run leader, is scheduled to make his first court appearance in the case Friday morning. He is expected to plead not guilty to four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice, charges that stem from the government’s assertion that he lied four years ago when he told a grand jury he did not take steroids or human growth hormone.

In the NYT article, Bonds gets some advice from a local expert: “Peter Keane, a 30-year veteran defense lawyer and dean emeritus at Golden Gate University Law School who has studied the case, said his best advice to Bonds would be for him to stop fighting and start negotiating.”  Similarly, in this USA Today piece, has a formal federal prosecutor also suggesting a plea and it notes sentencing prospects: “Keane and [former U.S. attorney] Matt Orwig agree that, even if Bonds accepts a plea bargain instead of going to trial, he’s certain to serve time in jail.  Were he to get convicted, Bonds faces up to 30 years in prison, though lawyers say 24 to 36 months is a more likely sentence.”

Notably, as this Wall Street Journal report documented, Barry Bonds is not eager to pay top dollar for legal help.  So I thought I would open up a Friday forum for folks to use the comments here to give Barry some free advice.